I have no idea whether this is good information or not but if you want a teaser on the Canon EOS 40D head on over to endgadget.

That page has a number of other links to follow for more gossip and information. I wonder if the August 20th. release date is accurate?

Bob.

EDIT: I originally pulled some images into this post from another site. They have been removed so you need to follow the link to endgadget to see the pictures now. That they disappeared so quickly is, as Spock would say, fascinating!

Fabricated certainly, but I can't claim the credit! However, it is probably only a matter of time before Canon introduces a competitor - I don't count the the EF 28-300mm f3.5-5.6L IS USM unless you own a Canon 5D, an oil well and go to the gym to build up those biceps. So for the moment the AF-S DX VR 18-200mm 3.5-5.6G IF-ED is certainly king of the superzooms.

By the same token, if the 40D is due for release soon I imagine it won't be too long before Nikon follows it up with a "D300".

The big problem about being a technophile is that you always end up wanting deeper pockets but I love it.

The question really is, does it get more interesting from 30D to 40D or from D200 to D300?
A "jump" from 10MP to 14MP on an APS-C sized sensor will certainly not make me abandon my current investment. That would be more tempting to owners of 8MP or less.
Another automatic-mode or "face detection" will certainly not cut it
Shrinking the whole package by 40% could be perhaps more tempting for me (still you have to lug around the lenses...)
3 fps to 5fps? Nah...

I'd be more interestet in a high-quality 10-24mm/f4 and a 80-500mm/F4-6.3 VRII

The feature list I reproduced came from http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/Canon_40D.html. That page illustrates how much speculation there is because they start off by showing pictures of what appears to be weather sealing and then include "no weather sealing" in their first feature table.

The pixel count is also quoted as both 10 and 12/13MP on that page so I guess nobody knows for sure. Could be a new sensor but with a 10MP count to keep the noise under control?

sRAW = Small Raw. Is there any way of reducing the size of a RAW file without losing data? If there is, why would you want a normal RAW? I've no idea!

The ISO question may be answered by the graphic of the top LCD. The field to the right of the ISO text reads A888 which would argue for a top ISO of 1600. There has been speculation that this might mean provision of an "Auto" ISO mode. I have no idea what that means - can you shed any light (sorry, bad pun).

Don't know what small-RAW is, but it is perfectly possible to compress RAW lossless. That's what is done in the D80 as I understand.
Simple mathematics (no Bob needed) shows that uncompressed 10MP RAW would be around 10Mx6Byte whereas effectively they have below 10MB